March 4, 200910 New Ways to Discover What You Need on the Web Like many of the other DEMO presenters, Sobees is designed to collect and categorize the Web-based information you're interested in. But Sobees does it in a desktop application instead of via a site or browser add-on. (more)

March 4, 200910 cutting-edge apps you've never heard of With so many social networks we just have to join, we need tools like Sobees. This desktop application for Windows (it uses WPF) brings in information from popular social networks like Twitter and Facebook, and at the same time gives you an RSS reader and search. (more)

March 3, 2009At Demo, it's all about content discovery Sobees reminds me of Tweetdeck and of Netvibes. It takes your social feeds and the sites you like, and puts it all into one big column-separated window so you can see what's happening on the sites and networks you care about. (more)

March 3, 2009DEMO 09: Boot Faster, Manage the Cloud For pulling together all the information from your various social networks, Desknet is showing offer Sobees, a Windows desktop application that integrates with Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, YouTube, Flickr, news sources, and RSS feeds. It aims to pull together information from all of the sources you follow into a single integrated display; and indeed it looks quite nice. (more)

March 3, 2009DEMO: Sobees creates a more social desktop Sobees fits in that category, with a desktop user interface that’s focused on giving you easy access to multiple social networks. It’s an easy way for social butterflies to get a handle on what’s happening in their personal networks. (more)

March 3, 2009Sobees Gives You Twitter+Facebook+YouTube+RSS Sobees just showed their .NET/WPF beta at Demo09 and it looks like crack for social media junkies. It's an all-in-one application to show you Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and your RSS in one place. It also lets you upload your pictures to Flickr, Facebook. (more)

October 24, 2008Sobees wants to socially aggregate your desktop The social features available for use on Sobees are likely to prove to be a huge benefit to the service. It is possible to interact with friends, integrate with video and photo sharing sites such as YouTube and also access Facebook and Twitter. Many agree that this type of application would be very beneficial to older generations. (more)

October 24, 2008Hands on: Sobees, the social desktop aggregator Sobees acts like a "taskbar for the web," offering integration with services like Flickr and Twitter, as well as an expandable set of components for reading RSS feeds and sharing content with friends. We weigh it in the balance and find it wanting. Sobees is the type of application that shows what (in my opinion) "web 3.0" really should be: the convergence of the Internet with desktop activities. (more)

October 23, 2008Sobees desktop widget engine launches public beta Sobees, a desktop widget engine that's been in private beta since March is now open to the public. The public beta version includes a ton of updates, and I have to say the new Sobees look a lot nicer than the version I looked at earlier this year. (more)

October 22, 2008Social Desktop Aggregator sobees Launches Public Beta Switzerland-based deskNET is debuting the public beta version of Sobees today, an application that aims to bring the web to a personalized desktop environment. Sobees sports an excellent design and has obviously paid much attention to the usability of the service (the ribbon menu is really cool). (more)

May 21, 2008bTT Twitter/FriendFeed Combo App Gets an Update The latest update to bTT includes a few more features that make the app worthwhile - most notably, they’re offering several options for filtering your stream. Also new is the ability to respond to a tweet via both an @reply and direct message. That last option is pretty cool - even FriendFeed.com doesn’t offer replies via DM. (more)

April 25, 2008bTT Friendfeed App Gets A Makeover The user interface is much better this time around! One of the coolest features that bTT has over the other Friendfeed/Twitter clients is the slideshow presentation of flickr photos. Still, bTT has one of the most solid search/filter features for Friendfeed that I’ve seen to date. As a Friendfeed desktop client, I’d honestly choose bTT over the rest. (more)

April 24, 2008Sobees Updates bTT - Twitter/Friendfeed Combo Desktop App Swiss startup Sobees has updated their application called bTT today. bTT combines Twitter and FriendFeed together and is similar to AlertThingy. bTT works on Windows machines only currently. Check out our review of the full Sobees app from SXSW. (more)

April 13, 2008Two new desktop applications for FriendFeed The other application recently released is a FriendFeed application built on WPF from Sobees called bTittleTattle. It’s Windows only but it’s part of the entire Sobees application suite which has a number of mini applications that you can use. (more)

April 10, 2008Sobees Builds Slick FriendFeed Desktop App A development group called Sobees thought that layering in a bit more interactivity could be helpful for FriendFeed users. And why not dress it up in a desktop application to make it extra sleek and accessible? (more)

March 31, 2008Sobees serves up skinnable, portable desktop widgets Sobees is one of the neater ones I've seen, placing a heavy emphasis on style and first-party widgets over building out an open platform for people to develop on (which is coming later on). There are a ton of nice touches that stand out. (more)

March 30, 2008Sobees widget engine launches private beta While we often find ourselves thinking "the last thing this world needs is another desktop widget engine," we might be willing to make an exception for Sobees. But there are at least three things that set Sobees apart from most other desktop widget applications:

March 22, 2008Sobees - Taking Web Start Pages To Your Desktop At SXSW, I had the opportunity to meet Sobees founder François Bochatay. François took me through a demo and others in the blogger room came over and it seemed to be a hit. I've had a chance to play with the Sobees app a bit more and I could see this as a good mainstream application. (more)